On 09/04/06, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1]cpatil writes "CNBC-TV 18 India has just announced that India's > largest Insurance company, LIC(Life Insurance Corporation of India) > [2]sealed a deal with Red Hat to use its desktop and server software. > LIC has roughly 160 Million customers, making it a non-trivial deal. > [3]Leslie D'Monte over at rediff also has a closer look at Linux > deployment in India."
Last year, I managed a roll out of Linux servers and desktops across 1000 branches of Canara Bank (India's 2nd largest public sector Bank): 1000 Servers and about 15,000 desktops. Sounds impressive. But I wonder how much of a benefit these companies derive from Open Source. If you look at how they handle it and how the deals were structured, all they're getting is cheaper software. Few of the high profile deals in India involve leveraging OSS to keep control of your infrastructure in house rather than in the hands of a vendor. So while these kind of stories help improve the credibility of Linux in the corporate space, I don't see it as a sign that Indian business is opening to the benefits of OSS. -- b
